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All campus departments are reminded that the deadline to nominate outstanding student employees for the Gerald F. Scanlon Student Employee of the Year awards is Wednesday, Feb. 26.
Nomination forms are available online at www.umass.edu/umfa/seo/employers or by contacting Christina Williams in the...

The campus community is invited to submit nominations for the Chancellor’s Citation Team Award, a new staff recognition award for outstanding work performance by a team of university employees.
Members of the campus community may nominate any benefited exempt or non-exempt team of employees...

By tradition, the senior officer at the UMass Police Department wears Badge 1 and the custom continued Feb. 3 as recently retired Officer Chris Laflamme passed the shield to Officer Ray Babb during ceremonies at the police station.
With about 35 uniformed and civilian staff on hand, Chief John...

The Isenberg School of Management again has received top honors in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Online Graduate Business Programs with a ranking of 27th overall, and 23rd amongst public universities.

AMHERST, Mass. – For a second straight year, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been named to The Princeton Review’s list of the nation’s 150 “Best Value Colleges.”
Released today, the annual list identifies 75 public and 75 private colleges and universities...

Three faculty members in the department of music and dance—Eric Berlin, John Bottomley and Greg Spiridopoulos—performed with the Albany Symphony Orchestra (ASO) on a Grammy-winning recording of “Conjurer,” a concerto for percussionist, string orchestra and optional brass by...

AMHERST, Mass. – Mathematician Panayotis Kevrekidis at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently won two international prizes that recognize his work on nonlinear waves and wave equations, which marries mathematics and physics to better understand how fiber optics communication systems...

Mary Deane Sorcinelli, associate provost for faculty development and founding director of the Center for Teaching and Faculty Development (CFTD), has been selected by the Massachusetts Network for Women Leaders in Higher Education to receive its Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is presented to a woman leader in higher education who has demonstrated significant leadership and promotion of women in the field of higher education.

Second Nature, the supporting organization of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), this week named UMass Amherst a finalist in its national 2014 Climate Leadership Awards, an annual competition among U.S. colleges and university signatories of the...